Three baseball games, five good to great starts, and just 14 runs scored, with the high mark being six. When you get this much starting pitching, it limits the amount of tactics displayed, and subsequently, the topics to write about. Let's go to the videotape…

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Erick Aybar ended two Angels' losses by getting caught on the basepaths. Was there any method behind this madness?

"It was a good time to run and it happened to be a good pitch for the catcher to throw on…It's just part of the game. You want to get a guy in scoring position. Sometimes you're aggressive and it comes out against you. We're an aggressive team, and we like to play our game, within ourselves. It's not always going to work in your favor."
-- Howie Kendrick, after teammate Erick Aybar was thrown out stealing to end the April 10th game against Cleveland

As the Round Robin playoffs start up in the Dominican Winter League, Carlos Lugo checks in with some notable news.

Tigerr-iffic

Despite the fact that most of their major league stars never showed up, and while suffering through the persistent struggles of D'Angelo Jimenez, one of the team's main figures, the Licey Tigers comfortably won the regular season, finishing 32-18, five games ahead of the Cibao Eagles. Licey had the best run differential in the league (+75) and they underperformed their Pythagorean record by just one game. They were the best at run prevention (3.7 runs allowed per game, league average 4.7) and their offense was second behind the Eagles.